Attorneys for a Tennessee death row inmate have launched a last-ditch effort to prevent his Aug. 5 execution. In Nashville’s ...

A federal appellate panel said that Michael Sockwell was eligible to be retried because prosecutors systematically eliminated ...

The court had earlier vacated Darrell Robinson's conviction and death sentence in a brutal quadruple murder in Rapides Parish ...

Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection. Smith, 75, requested hotdogs, tater ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ended its work for the session, but this week marks the anniversaries of two landmark decisions on ...

Chief Justice John Weimer and Associate Justices Piper Griffin and John Guidry dissented in the six-to-three decision. This ...

Death toll from an attack by gunmen in north-central Nigeria reaches 150, survivors say. Israeli opposition leader rallies behind Netanyahu's Iran operation, suspending months of criticism.

Reached at a death penalty conference in California, Goody called the judge's decision, "the best news I've had in years. "It was a terrible miscarriage of justice and my guy was on the row," he said.